The Quotable Holmes Courtesy of American Digest @ www.americandigest.org
THE FAIRER SEX, ADVANTAGES AND VEXATIONS The Eternal Mystery “Woman's heart and mind are insoluble puzzles to the male. Murder might be condoned or explained, and yet some smaller offense might rankle.” -- THE ADVENTURE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT
Women “Women have seldom been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart, but I could not look upon her perfect clear-cut face, with all the soft freshness of the downlands in her delicate coloring, without realizing that no young man would cross her path unscathed.” -- THE ADVENTURE OF THE LION'S MANE
Attractive Woman “ She is beautiful, but with the ethereal other-world beauty of some fanatic whose thoughts are set on high. I have seen such faces in the pictures of the old masters of the Middle Ages. How a beastman could have laid his vile paws upon such a being of the beyond I cannot imagine. You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the cave-man to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this.” -- THE ADVENTURE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS CLIENT
Gerard Van der Leun
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